We all know Alfred Nobel – a famous Swedish inventor and Nobel prize initiator. A lesser known fact is that Nobel invented explosives – TNT, and an even more less known fact is that Alfred Nobel lived in Russia, where his family moved when he was very young. his family owned factories there. Later, Alfred Nobel left Russia but as he lived and studied in Russia he could speak Russian very well. Most of his family has left Russia too, except for his elder brother, Ludvig Nobel. Ludvig was a Russian enthusiast and businessman. He owned Nobel Enterprises in St. Petersburg and was managing business himself. He has Russian nationality, too. And this is his house, now abandoned, with a huge Lenin head in one of the rooms for some reason.

In Russia, Ludvig Nobel was famous for his factories producing cannons and sea mines.

So to live more comfortably in St. Petersburg he ordered a villa to be built for himself in 1874.

Very interesting history. Feel great to think of Alfred Nobel for his humane thoughts. Russia was a great country and would have been great if not for the implementation of Glasnost theory of Gorbachev who thought otherwise to lift the people of Russia from communism. The sufferings of the Russian population after that is unbearable and they never deserved such a fate. I hope things are getting better.